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Beginning in the mid-1990s, feeder funds Kingate Global and Kingate Euro, created by Carlo Grosso, channeled $1.7 billion of his client's money to Madoff. [36] The funds were registered in the British Virgin Islands. The complaint also named Bank of Bermuda Ltd., a unit of HSBC Holdings Plc, as a defendant. The bank wired the money. [37]
The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008. [1] In December of that year, Bernie Madoff, the former Nasdaq chairman and founder of the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, admitted that the wealth management arm of his business was an elaborate multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
Date apprehended. December 11, 2008. Bernard Lawrence Madoff (/ ˈmeɪdɔːf / MAY-dawf; [ 2 ] April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. [ 3 ][ 4 ] He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq ...
The Wirecard scandal (German: Wirecard-Skandal) was a series of corrupt business practices and fraudulent financial reporting that led to the insolvency of Wirecard, a payment processor and financial services provider, headquartered in Munich, Germany. The company was part of the DAX index. They offered customers electronic payment transaction ...
Schoklender scandal. The Schoklender Scandal refers to the claims under which Sergio Schoklender [es] and other people were involved in the alleged embezzlement of funds, provided by the State to be allocated to social housing project of " Mission: Shared Dreams ", organized by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo [1] and created by Sergio Schoklender.
Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or ...
Misappropriation doctrine. The misappropriation doctrine is a U.S. legal theory conferring a "quasi-property right" on a person who invests "labor, skill, and money" to create an intangible asset. The right operates against another person (usually a competitor of the first person) "endeavoring to reap where it has not sown" by "misappropriating ...
Accounting scandals are business scandals which arise from intentional manipulation of financial statements with the disclosure of financial misdeeds by trusted executives of corporations or governments. Such misdeeds typically involve complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds, overstating revenues, understating expenses, overstating ...